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...from the lieutenant up to the mayor. I think it is possible to control such a situation with effective and tight leadership." Instead, Daley did nothing but encourage force by making it clear long before the convention that he considered the protesters to be an ill-kempt, subversive and alien breed to whom the city would not yield an inch. And in the wild melees shown on TV, few officers seemed to be around to urge a more temperate attitude...
...first day of the occupation, Czechoslovak crowds surged around the alien tankers and sentries and virtually smothered them in fraternal attentions...
...Leonard Stern, the company had rev enues last year of about $15 million, and its profits were in "the seven-figure category." That was a vast improvement over past years, when Talent Associ ates suffered in no small part because of its voluble boss's knack for alien ating network brass. But Susskind has learned to confine his contrariness large ly to his still running TV talk show...
...Wallace arose as a threat and Southern Republicanism as a lure. It is still an attractive mark to those in all regions who view the Federal Government as an inefficient leviathan. That this position also appeals to the old states'rights sentiment, the resistance to change imposed by alien authority, is something of a bonus for Nixon. The Southern attitude is an inducement for him to press the point vigorously...
...Horse. Though he tried, Nicolson, the aristocratic son of an English lord, never quite came to terms with either men or movements that he found wholly alien to his upbringing. Partly because he convinced himself that he was at least a "cerebral" socialist, but mostly because he had been half-promised a peerage, he bolted the Conservative Party in 1948 and stood for Parliament as a Labor candidate in working-class North Croydon...